Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d0f3fd3e3d1ccade…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.8 KB Created: 2020-08-13 07:41:56 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 1afdf5fe49cd18ff9f5be251eca1fcd2 SHA-1: 0737497696d846386d2712b3673f057262047ce9 SHA-256: d0f3fd3e3d1ccade29a6fd8d56aee48a38274f5c85cfc849a58f6af1de2915f8
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF contains a large number of embedded links, many pointing to Shopify domains, which is indicative of a link farm. One critical heuristic identified a link to a known malicious redirector infrastructure at 'https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=short%20story%20in%20english%20for%20elementary%20students%20pdf'. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The document body, though heavily obfuscated, contains URLs that are part of this link farm. The primary attack pattern appears to be SEO poisoning or redirecting users to malicious sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/wb?keyword=short%20story%20in%20english%20for%20elementary%20students%20pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.shenangofire.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606094/gazawud.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.westviewdancetroupe.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164132/mumejolamumisu-kedalasovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sigezazak.johnsonptsa.com/uploads/1/3/2/6/132695471/firoki-fisawilutakuxa-gapazitixujo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://labij.togothillbc.com/uploads/1/3/1/3/131379530/bibomezon.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • http://www.daltonmaag.com/In PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/8901/1612/files/83736442417.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/25668779603.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/2903/7219/files/39508870043.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/68905528383.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0438/1714/0386/files/stardew_valley_miner_vs_geologist.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9356/6364/files/golaxulanesiwa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/5560/4121/files/autocad_electrical_2020_training_manual.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/1634/7035/files/83097493714.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0434/1714/1415/files/billie_jean_fingerstyle_guitar_tab.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0431/5742/2240/files/59473588505.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/6191/9390/files/xawujafa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8421/8532/files/11222627598.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000073b8.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x73B8 5544 bytes
SHA-256: be89d7b6b5dc64d630602ad7cb9b6408fa3a43c91775d6b8caa6cde2e5e306e7
font_01_sfnt_off00008660.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x8660 9816 bytes
SHA-256: 4bc521d0428297c9ceb47996c8d3f4ee258583cc720e7323352297fc994dc71b
font_02_sfnt_off0000a7f1.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA7F1 4324 bytes
SHA-256: ff5f0ef16caf3e97cd1984b3a03ea88e11eab8cf63d2ee006085a4b9995833f3